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CURRIE v. GROUP INS. COM'N

No. 01-1916.

290 F.3d 1 (2002)

Valjeanne CURRIE, et al., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. GROUP INSURANCE COMMISSION, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Stephen Rosenfeld with whom Suzanne L. Schwartz, Rosenfeld & Associates, and Richard Ames were on brief for appellant.

Ginny Sinkel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Pierce O. Cray, Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, were on brief for appellees.

Ronald S. Honberg, Mary Giliberti, Thomas M. Sobol, Lydia Alix Fillingham, and Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP on brief for The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, amici curiae.

Before LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges and WOODLOCK, District Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The ultimate question in this case presents significant issues about a state government's ability to allocate insurance benefits by creating distinctions between different classes of individuals. Valjeanne Currie appeals the district court's entry of summary judgment for the defendant, the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), which provides disability benefits for employees of the state of Massachusetts. Currie v. Group Ins. Comm'n,

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